Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:09:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A8V-E Deluxe discontinued (was Re: Hi) Message-ID: <20050904080928.GD20880@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050816235300.4dc8924e.kgunders@teamcool.net> References: <20050816121701.74816.qmail@web54306.mail.yahoo.com> <4301E39F.1050500@samsco.org> <20050816204229.758827a5.kgunders@teamcool.net> <4302AA97.8030002@samsco.org> <20050816235300.4dc8924e.kgunders@teamcool.net>
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:53:00PM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:10:15 -0600 Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > > > I just noticed that Asus is discontinuing this mainboard so if you've > > > been wanting one it's a good time to get one while you can. Might look > > > for them to be priced for clearance as well... > > > > I forgot to mention that this board doesn't support dual core chips. > > That's probably why it's being discontinued. > > Which seems a bit incongruous at first blush since per Asus website the > A8V-E SE does support dual core and both boards use the same VIA K8T890 > chipset but I guess there's some other stumbling block. The first revision of the K8T890 has bug that prevents the use of dual-core CPU's. The A8V-E SE (second edition) uses the newer silicon revision. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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